FREETUXTV(1)

📦 version 0.6.8, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 FREETUXTV 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for freetuxtv — it lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's literally your ticket to watching and recording TV on your computer. sit down, grab a snack, we're doing this 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

freetuxtv — Internet television and radio player 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

freetuxtv [options]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So this manual page is a lil quick-and-casual doc for the freetuxtv player. Not exhaustive, just the vibe. 💅

freetuxtv is a video player built on LibVLC that lets you watch and record TV on your PC. periodt. There's a giant database — and it's growing daily, no cap — of free WebTV / WebRadio / WebCam channels in more than 20 languages, and you can just… access it. iconic. 🌈

You can also play streams from your ISP's television service if your provider actually offers that feature — some do, some don't, don't come for me 🙈. AND — and this is the part that ate — you can easily program your recordings on each channel, with different transcoding formats. so many formats. obsessed. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, bestie. long options start with two dashes (-). here's the whole menu, no skips: 👑

  • -h, --help — shows you a summary of the options. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶
  • *--open-channel *CHANNEL_NAME — look for a channel matching that name and play it if it finds one. important detail tho: it takes the first one in the channels list, so if there's more than one match, you get the first, not a choose-your-own-adventure 💀
  • -v, --verbose — display a more detailed trace. for when you want to see everything that's happening 🔥
  • *--datadir *DATA_DIR — set the data directory. your files, your rules 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

vlc(1),

(go say hi to vlc, they're family 💜)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

freetuxtv was written by Eric Beuque.

This manual page was written by Eric Beuque <eric.beuque@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). we love a multihyphenate ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was the General Commands Manual version, dated April 19, 2012, and the page signs off as FREETUXTV(1) — same as it opened. slay, we're done here 💖🎀🦋

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